Sheriff’s office charges man with threatening 2 Huntsville schools
Updated May 05, 2021;
A Huntsville man was arrested by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office on two counts of terrorists threats after he allegedly made bomb threats Tuesday to two Huntsville City Schools campuses, authorities said Wednesday.
Madison County Sheriff’s Office investigators with the FBI North Alabama Violent Crimes Task Force and the North Alabama Safe Streets Task Force located Darren Pullen, 39, of Huntsville, to make sure there were no danger to either of the unnamed campuses.
The investigation showed Pullen made phone calls to the campuses that included bomb threats.
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Posted: May 4, 2021 8:55 AM
Posted By: Josh Rayburn
Students and staff members evacuated Williams Elementary and Middle after the campus received a bomb threat about 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, said Craig Williams, Huntsville City Schools spokesman.
Law enforcement authorities are working with the system’s Security Team to investigate the threat, Williams said.
This is the second bomb threat Tuesday at a Huntsville City School.
A threat was called in to Grissom High School about 8 a.m. Read more HERE
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Alabama school system fends off cyber attack
Updated May 04, 2021;
A North Alabama school system says it thwarted an attempted cyber attack last week.
Madison City Schools Superintendent Ed Nichols told WHNT the system’s technology team was alerted to a potential security threat on the afternoon of April 29th. Critical systems were pulled offline to analyze the threat and the team spent the weekend working on the issue, believed to have been an attempt to lock down the network and hold it for ransom.
“The good news is they weren’t able to lock us down. They did not get any data from us to our knowledge,” Nichols said.
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